They keep on giving and there is always more to do, a way to get better. Can you beat your previous clear times? Can you kill things even more efficiently and take less damage doing so? The games themselves are fun. The internal scoring system of the games keeps the content fresh and always gives you something more to strive towards. The story is thrilling in both of them and keeps encapsulated in the weird topsy turvy world of Ninja Gaiden.ĭodging rockets whilst carving people up with a whole array of weapons previously not seen in Western releases, or outside of DLC breathes even more life and replayability in these games. The gameplay in the latter two games of the collection perfectly embodies what makes action Hack n’ Slash games an exciting challenge that is fun to pick up, crack away at for a few hours, and then get on with the day. The sound design and world design still holds up to today. Sigma 2 and Razor’s Edge play flawlessly on modern platforms, whilst still being somewhat visually dated. If there was any reason for you to consider picking up this collection, it would most definitely be those two games. The game starts of quick and fast and gives you that heart pounding intensity right off the bat.ĭespite Ninja Gaiden: Sigma being a bit of a dud in this collection, Sigma 2 and Razor’s Edge make up for that completely. Easily the most action-packed and gripping story of the collection, this game alone makes the Master Collection a must-buy for any fan of the series, or of Team Ninja games in general. ![]() Ninja Gaiden: Razor’s Edge is the penultimate version of Ninja Gaiden 3 improving even slightly over the original release of Razor’s Edge which fulfilled all the things missing in the original Ninja Gaiden 3. Even more impressively, this extends to the 3rd game in the collection, Razor’s Edge. Taking the game with you for a long car trip, or a long transport commute to work, you’ll easily lose yourself in the almost techno neon world of Sigma 2 and be reminded how good Ninja Gaiden is. Impressively, playing this on the Switch feels like the correct way to be playing. The contrast here, is that it shows how horrendously outdated the first game is, and really suggests that you just skip over the first game to play Sigma 2 instead. It’s hard to make an argument against this, when experiencing Ninja Gaiden: Sigma 2 which plays flawlessly and would hold its own against modern day juggernauts. Perhaps in that this game feeling so good, in a seemingly untouched manner led to the decision to just directly port the games with all their DLC and artwork, rather than remastering them. Zipping around the screen, cutting limbs off enemies, watching as blood gushes from their wounds. Like a difficult action hack n’ slash should. The combat feels flawless, it looks visually impressive and plays exactly as I remember it. I was afraid I’d be slugging through 3 incredibly outdated games that felt as clunky as they looked. I was dreading picking up Ninja Gaiden: Sigma 2 after having such an abysmal first few hours with the first game. Thankfully, this gripe only rings true for the first game. This may be more problematic on the Switch, where the direct camera controls are not the most acute. This is not far-fetched in asking, with so many other games getting ported and re-loved and touched with a new definitive edition, updating graphics, gameplay and giving these games some quality-of-life adjustments to ensure that they are worth playing in this modern day. It needed some love, and quality of life updates. With the Master Collection, this game needed a new coat of paint. Whilst the story has aged semi-decently, the gameplay itself is atrociously unbearable. ![]() ![]() Perhaps the way of the time, the first game of the Sigma collection is obnoxiously dated. ![]() The camera control is janky, the visuals seem so far outdated that I was questioning whether this was the game I remembered playing on the PlayStation 3 over 15 years ago. Something horrifyingly apparent in playing Ninja Gaiden: Sigma is that these games have almost definitely been taken in their original form and moved across to modern consoles, without much thought put into some quality-of-life improvements. Admittedly, I went into these games with some nostalgia for the Sigma games, remembering them to be difficult but fun.
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